‘To Bee or Not too Bee…’

It has been a long Sunday.

David has been bored and I have busied myself with exercising and relaxing in the bath for over an hour, listening to Classic FM and drinking wine! 😀

I pottered about the garden before and noticed two bees on my flowers! Yes, two bees! I have chosen the plants for wildlife and recently been mourning the fact that most bees seem to have been visiting my mums yard, but not today! I saw one bee on my Azalea and another on my Scabiosa! Finally!! I am so happy!

 

My Aquilegia also looks lovely, with blossoming purple buds!

25 Goldfinches!

On Friday 22nd March it snowed for most of the day! I remember well this time last year, we were sitting in the garden enjoying the warm sun! What a difference a year makes!

I had finished work at the university for the three week Easter break and spent the day looking at the falling snow drift past my window and at the visiting garden birds to my feeders. At one stage there were 25! Goldfinches sitting in the surrounding trees. Blue Tits and Magpies visited for the home made bread we had left out the day before.  

Below find video compilation I made of the visiting birds this cold ‘spring’ day.

We have a leak! :(

News from the weekend is that we found a leak in the ceiling of our guest bedroom. The leak is coming from a shared chimney stack we have with our neighbours. We have had the roofers out and they are coming some time this week to re-point the brickwork, but ultimately the stack needs to be taken down. 😦

On a more brighter note, I saw a lone Wren in the garden this evening. Below is footage I took of one last year!

We have had many Goldfinches, Pigeons and Starlings visit over the weekend as well as two Blue Tits and a Magpie. 🙂